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The choice of languages is a feature that was introduced in weekly snapshot 11w49a and officially released in Minecraft 1.1. The language menu is accessible via a new button in the main menu to the left of the options button, and from the options menu.

History

Here is a table that summarizes the modifications of languages through the updates :

Version Added Removed Total Notes
11w49a 36 - 36
12w01a 18 4 50
1.1 6 - 56

Available languages

As of version 1.1, there are 56 languages, which are, in the order they appear in in the menu :

# Name Language Official language in Added in
1 Afrikaans Afrikaans South Africa 12w01a (1.1)
2 اللغة العربية Arabic North Africa + Near and Middle East 12w01a (1.1)
3 Български Bulgarian Bulgaria 12w01a (1.1)
4 Català Catalan Andorra & Catalonia 12w01a (1.1)
5 Čeština Czech Czech Republic 11w49a (1.1)
6 Cymraeg Welsh Wales 11w49a (1.1)
7 Dansk Danish Denmark, Faroe Islands, Greenland. 11w49a (1.1)
8 Deutsch German Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Belgium. 11w49a (1.1)
9 Ελληνικά Greek Greece, Cyprus. 12w01a (1.1)
10 English (UK) British English Great Britain 11w49a (1.1)
11 English (Ca) Canadian English Canada 11w49a (1.1)
12 Pirate Speak Pirate English None (Web language) 12w01a (1.1)
13 English (US) American English USA 11w49a (1.1)
14 Español (Ar) Argentinian Spanish Argentina 11w49a (1.1)
15 Español (Es) Spanish Spain 11w49a (1.1)
16 Español (Me) Mexican Spanish Mexico 1.1
17 Español (Ur) Uruguayan Spanish Uruguay 1.1
18 Español (Ve) Venezuelan Spanish Venezuela 12w01a (1.1)
19 Eesti Estonian Estonia 11w49a (1.1)
20 Euskara Basque France and Spain (Basque Country) 12w01a (1.1)
21 Suomi Finnish Finland 11w49a (1.1)
22 Français (Ca) Canadian French Canada 11w49a (1.1)
23 Français (Fr) French France, Belgium, Monaco, Switzerland, .... 11w49a (1.1)
24 Galego Galician Galicia (Spain) 1.1
25 עברית Hebrew Israel 11w49a (1.1)
26 Hrvatski Croatian Croatia 11w49a (1.1)
27 български Bulgarian Bulgaria 11w49a (1.1)
28 Íslenska Icelandic Iceland 11w49a (1.1)
29 Italiano Italian Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City State. 11w49a (1.1)
30 日本語 Japanese Japan 11w49a (1.1)
31 ქართული Georgian Georgia 12w01a (1.1)
32 한국어 Korean South Korea 11w49a (1.1)
33 हिन्दी Hindi India 1.1
34 Lietuvių Lithuanian Lithuania 11w49a (1.1)
35 Latviešu Latvian Latvia 12w01a (1.1)
36 Bahasa Melayu Malay Malaysia, Singapore 12w01a (1.1)
37 Norsk Bokmål Norwegian Norway 11w49a (1.1)
38 Nederlands Dutch The Netherlands, Belgium, Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten, Suriname. 11w49a (1.1)
39 Norsk Nynorsk Norwegian Norway 11w49a (1.1)
40 Polski Polish Poland 11w49a (1.1)
41 Português (Br) Brazilian Portuguese Brazil 11w49a (1.1)
42 Portuguese (Po) Portuguese Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, .... 11w49a (1.1)
43 Quenya Quenya (High Elvish) Fictive (Lord of the Rings : Valinor, Lindon and Rivendell) 1.1
44 Română Romanian Romania 12w01a (1.1)
45 Pусский Russian Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, .... 11w49a (1.1)
46 Slovenčina Slovak Slovakia 12w01a (1.1)
47 Slovenščina Slovenian Slovenia 11w49a (1.1)
48 Српски Serbian Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro. 12w01a (1.1)
49 Svenska Swedish Sweden, Finland. 11w49a (1.1)
50 ภาษาไทย Thai Thailand 12w01a (1.1)
51 tlhIngan Hol Klingon Fictive (Star Trek) 12w01a (1.1)
52 Türkçe Turkish Turkey, Cyprus. 11w49a (1.1)
53 Українська Ukrainian Ukraine, Transnistria. 12w01a (1.1)
54 Tiếng Việt Vietnamese Vietnam 1.1
55 简体中文 Chinese (Simplified) China, Singapore. 11w49a (1.1)
56 繁體中文 Chinese (Traditional) Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau. 12w01a (1.1)

Upcoming languages

This is a list of all the upcoming languages that are listed on the official Minecraft translation project page :

  • English (Australian)
  • Hungarian
  • Indonesian
  • Irish

Removed languages

Name Language Official language in Added in Removed in Reason
Deutsch (Ös) Austrian German Austria 11w49a (1.1.0) 12w01a (1.1.0) Unknown (probably because Austrian German mostly equals standard German)
Español (La) Latino-American Spanish South America 11w49a (1.1.0) 12w01a (1.1.0) Replaced by Argentinian, Venezuelan and Uruguayan Spanish translations.
Magyar Hungarian Hungary 11w49a (1.1.0) 12w01a (1.1.0) Unknown
Malti Maltese Malta 11w49a (1.1.0) 12w01a (1.1.0) Unknown (removed from the Translation Project page as well)

Bugs & Inaccuracy

  • Arabic is written like: "ا ل ل غ ة ا ل ع ر ب ي ة" but without spaces, not like "اللغة العربية".
  • In some languages, the text is too long and overfills the button it is written on.
  • Splash texts are not translated and therefore will show up in English.
  • In Canadian English, the "Benchmarking" achievement description is bugged. Also, Gray and Light Gray Wool spell the word "Grey", but the dye spells it "Gray".
  • Power and punch enchantments on bows have the name of the similar sword enchantment when using Canadian English
  • Many Turkish translations contain obscenities, which were contributed by trolls.
  • There are some critical mistakes in some of the Translations, like Hebrew.
  • The UK English and Canadian English use the other languages code.
I.E: Name = Canadian English, Language code = en_GB and vice versa.
  • In Pirate, the "Industrious now, aren't we?" achivement has a w on the end.
  • Hebrew is titled as "אנגלית" (English). It should be "עברית" (Hebrew).
  • When Bulgarian is selected the text beneath is in Hungarian, what was removed for unknown reason.

Trivia

  • Minecraft is available in three fictive languages : Klingon (Klingon language from Star Trek), Pirate (Internet language) and Quenya (Elvish language from Lord of the Rings).
  • In Pirate speak, Gold Boots are called "Buttershoes", a reference to Seananners, a well known YouTube personality that ran a Minecraft series.
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